January 2020! | One Year to Get Organized | Masterclass | Organize 365 | Lisa Woodruff

Hello everyone, thank you so much for joining me. Like I said, if you're joining us live, make sure that you have your chat open. And you're typing your questions to all panelists and attendees. If you're watching this as a replay and you've been through the whole masterclass and you have questions, just go ahead and reach out to us at customerservice@organize365.com. We wanna make sure we answer all of your questions. So, who am I? I am Lisa, and I'm super excited to be talking to you today. I'm gonna tell you a little bit about myself. First of all, I'm from Cincinnati, Ohio, and that first picture is chili. Cincinnati is the chili capital of the world. I was not born here. When I first moved here for 10 years, I resisted all of the different kinds of chili. There is Skyline, there is Gold Star, and I am a Skyline girl. It's a sweet chili. Hardly even tastes like, like chili. Has a little bit of chocolate and cinnamon in it, and I love it. The middle picture is Hunter. He may make a barking appearance later. He's right outside of my office guarding for any Amazon packages that might come along the way. And the third one is Culver's onion rings, and I just decided I think I'll be treating myself after this masterclass and go get me some. They're not healthy. It's my version of wine. And if you follow me on Instagram, you know, I go there Often I keep saying I'm going to give them up, but so far I've not. I have a couple of podcasts you can listen to if you like this presentation. If you like the sound of my voice, you're like, hmm, that sounds interesting, I'd like to dive in a little deeper. We have the Organized 365 podcast that has 3 podcast episodes to count out each week. We have a really small, short Sunday Basket podcast that just has 11 episodes. When you hear about the Sunday Basket later in this presentation, if you want to know more about that. Just download that podcast. It'll give you about an hour's worth of content that will guide you right through setting one up. I also published 2 books on my own, and I'm coming out with a new book this fall called The Paper Solution. All right, in this masterclass, what are you going to learn? These are the actionables you're going to be able to take away. Number one, I want to help you with how I define a year. I am a Questioner by trait. And that means that I dig in and I analyze what has worked for me, what works for other homeowners, and I'm going to tell you why I have decided that our year should be divided into 3 smaller little years. I'm also going to want to talk to you about what you do and don't have control over. The desire to organize is really the desire to get control over some situation. We're going to talk about what we have control over. We're also going to talk about how do we find more time in our days. I mean, raise your hand if you would like to have some more time in your day. I know I do. And how do you actually get time? Where does time come from? And then we're going to walk through how the Organized 365 system has been developed over the last 8 years and step by step will help you take control and give you back more time and more days in your week. So let's start at the beginning. And this really is— this masterclass is going to guide you through the foundational principles of how to get organized. And the first thing you need to realize is that As I'm recording this, it is January. It's actually the end of January, and most people have already given up on their New Year's resolutions. Well, luckily for me, I define my year as about 4 months, so I get to make New Year's resolutions 3 times a year. And each of those times have different organizing energy and different kinds of resolutions that I make. Once I explain this, if you haven't heard this before, you might think, oh, I do that too. The first one is January through May. We're all hopped up on organizing juice and New Year's resolutions and the gyms are full and we are going to change our lives. And this energy usually ends around May. So whatever organizational or New Year's resolution goal you have usually wanes towards May here in the United States as we head into summer, which is the shortest of my New Year's, which is June to August. Often whatever you thought was a great idea in January is not necessarily a great idea in June. Personally, I set all of my healthier living and weight-loss goals for summer. It is way easier for me to lose weight in summer than it is during this first year of the year because I want to hibernate. I want to sit in front of a fire and I don't really like to move a lot. Then we have our third year of the year, which is September through December, and this is your most productive year. This is when, like, think about back to school. When you would go back to school, it was a fresh start. You had a new year, new grade, new expectations for yourself. That does not change when we are an adult. Like, when you are an adult, even if you're not going back to school, your fall energy, it's like, we've got to finish our yearly annual goals. We want to hit our numbers by the end of December. And you just have a whole bunch of energy going into the fall to hit those numbers. These 3 new years each have different organizing energies and each one adds to the last one to make one full year. So I say that January energy leads to that late summer— wait, late spring, summer energy leads to your fall energy and around. And in a minute, we're going to talk about the 3 different levels of organizing: decluttering, organizing, and increasing productivity. Each of those are primary or secondary in each of these years. So right now, if you're listening to this real time, we're in January. Your primary organizing energy is organizing, like you want to buy all the bins in all your favorite colors and just put everything so it looks beautiful in your house. And your secondary energy is decluttering because you can't possibly fit everything you have into those cute bins. Well, in spring going into summer, your primary energy is going to be decluttering. Think garage sales, yard sales, those kinds of things. And your secondary energy is gonna be organizing 'cause you will declutter first and then organize. Right now we're actually organizing and then decluttering. It's kind of backwards right now. And then fall is all about productivity. So you wanna have the most productive fall you can. Because you wanna have a productive fall, you will look to organizing to give you that energy. Like I said, each of these years Builds on the last. And when you complete all 3 in one calendar year, that is your year of organizing. It does not matter where you start. You could start in the summer and finish one year later in the summer. You could start in October and finish one year later in October. You could start in January and finish one year later in January. You can jump in at any time. So I'm going to run a little poll for you that are over there in the chat. I want you to type in, is this actually how you plan your year? You might have never thought of this before. But now that you think about it, do you kind of set different goals for the summer, for the fall, and then for what I call winter starting in January? Yes or no? Yes, yes, no.

Okay.

Once you think this way as you go through these years, It will be interesting to see if now you realize you have more patterns than you thought you did. I like to get you to think differently. Like, that is the one thing I like to do in Organized 365 is take things that you've thought the same way about ever since you were a child and then say, but do we really want to think about it that way? Or why do we actually do things that way? To help you change your behaviors. The second thing I told you we're going to cover in this masterclass is we are going to talk about control. And I love to be in control. I'm sure you do too. Like, just as humans, we like to be in control of a situation. And as you become more of an adult, you realize you're less and less in control, which is kind of odd. Like, as a child, you think you're not in control because you're not the adult, but, but the older you get in your adulthood, the more you realize you really are not in control as much as you thought you were. So I'm going to go ahead and tell you my story about how I realized this. And how I took back control. So I quit my teaching job in December of 2011. This was not— it was not the best timing, but it was the best timing for our family. So what had happened was, I was a teacher, I had 2 kids, they were 10 and 11 years old, and we were struggling financially. So I went back to work teaching. I had been a stay-at-home mom. I had a bunch of different direct sales and stay-at-home businesses. And I needed the consistency of income that a job would provide. So I went back to teaching and our kids were school age. So I figured it would be no big deal. Well, it was a big deal. And they had a lot of medical issues at that time and they needed a stay-at-home mom, but we needed the income more. So I went back to work. And Greg and I ended up taking a lot of days off unpaid because we didn't have enough vacation or sick time and able to take care of the kids. And it was the Thursday before winter break. I was supposed to be going home. Our daughter was sick and we're both out of vacation days, and my administrator called a meeting for me with a parent. Of course, you have to have your parent meetings, right? If you call a meeting with the teacher, you want her to be there. So I was there at the meeting and the meeting went just fine. It definitely could have waited until January, but whatever, we had the meeting. And then at the end of the meeting, my administrator held me back in her office. I was 39 years old. And she proceeded to berate me and tell me what a bad teacher I was and all these perfectionistic things that I needed to change. And, and mind you, I was teaching 6th, 7th, and 8th grade math to 21 different students at their level. So I had 21 different math lesson plans going on, and I was teaching science. I was teaching in a Montessori school. And I was going home, working till midnight, getting up at 5 AM, grading more papers, taking the kids to school. I mean, I was working nonstop for this school. And if you know teacher pay, especially at private schools, it was not a lot. And so while I had gone back to working, I'd gone back to working so that I could earn more money. We actually were sinking further and further in debt because it wasn't enough to cover our bills and our expenses were really, really high at that time because 50% of our take-home pay for about 7 years went to medical expenses for our kids. And it's just the math was not adding up. So I'm driving home from work. We've got Friday and then we've got winter break where I'm going to take back my house and regain control of my family. And I was like, this is not working. This is just not working. I'd been, I had been teaching for 18 months. We were not getting ahead financially. Our kids were not doing well physically. Our house was a mess. I felt like I was completely out of control. I had no control over anything, zero control. And I said, you know what, I'm gonna quit my job. So I show up at home, sit down with my husband. I'm like, I'm gonna quit my job. And he goes, fine. So I go upstairs, type out the resignation letter, because he's like, whatever, we're drowning. Like, what does it matter? Quit your job, don't quit your job, I don't care. So I go in Friday morning, and I quit my job. And my husband's— the first thing he said to me was, what are you going to do to make money now? I was like, I don't know. I don't know. But I've got to figure out what's going on in this house. So it was January. By the time I got through my 2 weeks and winter break and everything, I got home and I went to the grocery store by myself. I think I was there for 2 hours. I filled like a cart and a half full of stuff that we didn't have, and I brought it home. And I went to unload the car and I went to set the bags on the kitchen counters and there was no space on my kitchen counters. And you guys, if you see my kitchen counters on Instagram, I have more kitchen counters than anybody. I have so many kitchen counters and there was no place to put these bags. So I put them on the floor thinking I'll just unload the car and then I'll put them away. So it's Ohio, it's January, it's freezing. I'm sure it was snowing. I'm all done. I've got all these grocery bags all over the floor and I open up the refrigerator. It's full of stuff that's like spoiled or rotten or whatever. And I started opening up every cabinet in my kitchen and they were all full. Like, there was no place to put any of this food that I had just bought. And I realized at that time that every single drawer in my house was a junk drawer. There was no rhyme or reason to the closets. Like, you have a hard time believing this today, looking at my house the way it is now, but you guys, it was Horrible. It was awful. My house was bulging with so much stuff and I didn't know what to do with it. My kids were— I told you they were 11, 10 and 11. We had sippy cups in the kitchen. I spent the whole first 4 months of 2012 just driving stuff to Goodwill. I think 25% of our house left at that time. And the entire time I'm doing this, I'm thinking, I don't have any money. I don't have a job. What am I doing? Like, how can I possibly be spending all this time getting rid of for free stuff that we don't need, but I can't afford not to have? It was just such a weird juxtaposition to be in. And we did have a garage sale. Like, I saved anything that was worth $20 or more, I saved for a garage sale. We had a large guest bedroom in our basement and it was full, like up to my chin, all the way around of stuffing we had in the garage sale. And we did have the garage sale, but I only earned $600. Again, it took so much time, it was ridiculous. So at the end of January, I sat down and I took a legal pad. I remember this day, and I just started writing down every single space in my house that needed to be organized, every drawer, every cabinet. And I just started attacking that list. I just about killed myself organizing and blogging. And along the way, I realized I was a professional organizer. Started doing this for other people and launched my business. But I started blogging January 1st, 2012. Like, as I was going through this, that's how I started Organized 365. I tell you this because when I got started organizing, I did not get started when I had enough time or when I had enough money. I didn't have either. So I got started when the cost of not getting organized was greater than the cost of getting organized. I had a job where I was earning some money and I got no time, but I didn't have enough money. So I didn't have enough money or time. And I decided that I had tried to get money for the longest amount of time. What I was going to get was time. So I quit my job to get the time in order to organize my house, and then the money followed. The real reason I quit my job and started this whole entire organizing journey was because the thing I was not doing was being a mom. I was being a— I was earning money. I was trying to maintain the house, but I was not being a mom. And I realized on that drive home that Thursday night that somebody else could be the teacher in that classroom come January, but no one else was going to be the mom to my kids. And if I did not change, if I did not take control of the one thing, the only thing that I could do is running that house and being that mom, I would regret it for the rest of my life. It was not easy. It took a long time for me to replace my teaching salary, I think 3 years. And then after that, I started to develop these systems that you see today. But it was what was best for my family. And today, we're happy, we're thriving. I have more time than I know what to do with. All, you know, my kids are being guided in what their future professions will be by a mom who has spent this time with them and really gotten myself organized. So I could get them organized. And along the way, I realized we have control over some things. We always have control over our attitude. And my life circumstances was making my attitude horrible. Like, you didn't know me then, but it was not good. I was not a positive person. I was very woe is me, and I'm a martyr, and I'm, you know, I don't have enough money and my kids are not gonna— and I was always whining. I was very, very negative. And I realized along the way that the only thing I can control— I can't control the economy, I can't control anything except for myself. I can't control my kids or my husband or the weather. I can only control myself. And when I started to control just myself, I realized that 80% of the stuff in that house was under my control. I brought it in there. I organized it, I containerized it, I kept it. And I could decide when it could go and what to do with it. And so I realized that I was in control of myself. I was in control of my physical space. And through that physical decluttering and organizing that I did for the year of 2012, I launched my business. I launched myself as a new mom. I launched myself, you know, just as a more positive, proactive person. And you can do that too. So are you ready to take control of the only thing that you can take control of, which is yourself. I want you to type yes in the chat. Yes, yes, yes, yes. I want my place to be a house of refuge and peace. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. All caps, YES. Very good. Good job. OK, so we have learned that the only thing we can focus on is ourself. So how are we going to find more time in our days? I'm not recommending you all quit your job. But you know, if you need to, you need to. Okay, so how are we going to find more time? Over the last 8 years, I have researched, analyzed how other people are getting organized when I was a professional organizer, how I've organized myself through the podcast, different ideas, and I found a couple of things to be true. The turtle was right. Slow and steady always wins the race. Now I personally am a jackrabbit. And I'm jumping all over the place. I'm sure you already noticed that. So I like to move around really fast. But what I have found over time through analyzing thousands of people who I've helped get organized is that slow and steady wins the race. And so while I like to do things fast and quick, I know that the only change that's going to stick comes from changing your habits. And changing habits takes a long time. And for us, we say it takes 120 days. That's dividing your year into 3 years. Gives you 3 blocks of 120 days, and we only focus on changing 1 or 2 habits during that 120 days and then adding 1 or 2 more in the next 120 days. Now, the first way you're going to find more time is we have got to control the amount of information that's coming into you and your ridiculous to-do list that is never going to be to-done. Okay. Your lives, your days are filled to overflowing. If you had more time, you get organized. I know you wouldn't even be on this masterclass. So step 1 is to stop that flood of information, which are the tasks that you're being asked to do repetitively, the mail that's coming in the mailbox, your email box, your text messages, your DMs, your Facebook Messenger. That's all what I'm calling mail. Your to-dos— go pick up the prescription, get more milk, make a doctor's appointment, get a haircut. All these ideas are streaming in from your social media, from your family, if your kids are in school, from the school, from your work, from your own brain. Most of it is coming from your own brain. We have— I was talking to my son about this the other day. He said, Mom, I'm starting to write everything down in a planner. I said, yes. I said, because your brain is for thinking. Your brain is not for remembering tasks. A planner is for remembering tasks, which frees up your brain so that you can think. And he said, oh my gosh, Mom, you're right. We are so used to using our brain like a piece of paper to remember to make a doctor's appointment, when really our brain should be used for thinking, how do we cure cancer? How can we get our 2-year-old to sleep through the night? How can I— you know, big questions. Our brain, it's like, it's like using a computer as a paperweight. We need to free up our brain for the thing it was uniquely created to do, which is think. Think, not being a task reminder. So in order to do this, we have to be able to take our brain and put it somewhere else and know that we're going to remember all of those things. And the solution, the Organized 365 solution for that, is the Sunday basket. The Sunday basket, which is where you grab index cards and you write down literally every single thing that's in your head on individual cards. I know you're gonna have like 100 cards in there. I don't care, put 1,000 there, it doesn't matter. Everything that comes in your head, write it in there, throw it in the Sunday basket, write it in there, throw it in the Sunday basket. And we are taking our brain from being a to-do list task organizer to being a thinking machine. And on Sundays, we will go through all of these notes. Yes, you will write down make a haircut on 3 different cards, does not matter. You will go through all of those, you will organize those tasks, you will pull off a reasonable amount that you're going to get done this week, and everything else will wait. It will wait until next week. It's all going to be held back. That overflowing levee is going to be held back by the Sunday basket, and you can decide how much you want to do. And you're going to say to me, but Lisa, it all has to get done. No, it doesn't. You know why it doesn't? Because you aren't doing it now. You think it all has to get done. And if you just give another hour to that to-do list, or you stay up one more hour later, or you hire somebody to do it— no, it's not all going to get done. And you need to realize that, and you need to give yourself grace and permission for things to wait. And when you let things wait, you're able to do a couple things. You're able to delegate things more thoughtfully. You're able to group your tasks. Oh, I realized I have 4 errands to do, so I could do them all in 1 hour versus having left my house 3 different times for half an hour, which would have cost me 2 hours. So you save time in, in batching your tasks. You pay all of your bills at once. And then as you're paying your bills, you realize, oh, I do have money to give to that charity. Or this month we're a little short, we're not going to give to that charity, versus making those decisions as each individual piece of mail comes in. So you're going to learn to make thinking brain-related decisions on Sunday and picking out a handful of tasks that can be done in your everyday Monday through Friday. On average, people end up saving 5 hours a week doing the system this way. This Sunday basket is going to free up 1 to 2 hours a day, a day. And you may say, there's no way. Try it. Try it and see, because people who have tried, they're all like, wow, she is really, really right. You are definitely going to spend 1 to 3 hours on Sunday going through this basket. But the freedom you are going to get during the week by not doing those tasks every single day is life-changing. And like I said before, Your to-do list is not going to get done. You need to start realizing that there is more on your plate than you are capable of doing, not because you're not a capable person, but because the expectations are unrealistic. And you have to get more realistic with how much time you have to spend on things that are not your house, yourself, your children, and your spouse if you have them. Like all these outside things that are outside of your 4 walls of your house. They need to come secondary to what is inside of your house when you're in your house. I have determined over the last 8 years that we all want more time. And I've realized where time comes from. People say you can't buy time. Disagree, you can. Or we can never get time back. I guess you can't get it back. But I am telling you, time always, always, always comes from organization. And when you get something organized, what you get is future Time. So step 1 in the Organized 365 journey is to start a Sunday basket. So I want you to type in there, do you have a Sunday basket up and running? Now this masterclass going forward, I'm going to keep telling you about the Organized 365 system, and I am going to really run through what your 365 days with us will look like if you choose to go all in and drink the Kool-Aid. And it's going to start with the Sunday basket. And there are 2 different kinds of learners that I have on here. One of you are like me, you're jackrabbits. You want it all. You want to get started. You want to get started yesterday. You're going to take a week off of work. You're going to do it fine. I'm going to have you listen to the whole entire masterclass and decide where you want to jump in. But a lot of you are not. And a lot of you are sitting there and you're thinking, I've never been organized. I don't know if I can be organized. I don't think that I have what it takes. I know everybody else can do it, but I really don't think I can. Um, I just don't want to bite off more than I can chew. I don't have finances in order to invest in organizational program. I've tried this before. I've spent the money. I haven't done it. What I want to say to you is I only want you to do the Sunday basket. I know it works. We have thousands of people doing it. We know that it works. So this is your first organizational win. It is $97. We give you so much stuff with the Sunday Basket. Now you get the physical box. You get the slash pockets, you get online training where you can watch me doing the Sunday Basket with you. You get a whole bunch of free printables. And now we've added in the Sunday Basket Club. Every single Sunday at 5 PM Eastern, you can get on Zoom or Facebook for 90 minutes. With a professional organizer like they're sitting right next to you and you go through your Sunday basket and they're going through their Sunday basket along with hundreds of other people are doing the same thing. So it's like you're in a virtual classroom. You can get your questions answered. You can— you definitely get your questions answered and it holds that time for you to get the Sunday basket done so you can get it done all the way. That was a $99 value. Although, I mean, 90 minutes with a professional organizer every week for the rest of your life, basically. Like, how do we even put a price on that? $97 is your entry place. And that is the habit. Remember I was talking about habits. That is the habit you have to start. As soon as you start the Sunday basket, it will take you about 6 weeks for it to get going and for you to stop using your brain like a piece of paper and use it like the computer it is. And start using your Sunday basket to house all of your ideas that you go through once a week. So if you do not have a Sunday basket and you think maybe this is my thing. All I want you to do is get a Sunday basket and try it. A $97 investment is not too much to get your brain back, right? So that's number one, get a Sunday basket. So let's see what everybody's typing in there. Okay, so some of you are saying yes, some of you are saying no, you don't have a Sunday basket, and some of you are saying kind of. So if you kind of have a Sunday basket, there are 2 kinds of people that have kind of Sunday baskets. One are people who are doing it on their own without the $97 system.

Fine.

You can go to the Sunday Basket podcast and listen to 11 episodes and see if that helps you. And number 2, there is something to having the system. I've been asking a bunch of people who had a Sunday Basket running for a while before they bought the actual $97 system, and they're like, there is something to the actual physical system with the right slash pockets. So I just encourage you, step 1, to do that. All right, we are going to move on. If you need a Sunday basket and $97 is your max and you understand, you can get off of this masterclass right now. You could stop watching it. If you're watching the replay, it will be available on YouTube. And come back after you have the Sunday basket. For those of you that already have the Sunday basket or you want to hear the whole system. The next thing we're going to dive into is your house. We're going to get your house organized. And the reason why we start with the Sunday basket is because we need a place for all of our actionable to-dos to go. If you start organizing your house right now without a Sunday basket in place, you're not going to make very much progress because your levy— you don't have anything holding back all those to-dos to give you the time. We need the time from the Sunday basket to pour into organizing your house. Now, my favorite quote right now is from Bill Gates. He says, we overestimate what we can do in 1 year in business and we underestimate what we can do in 10. And I have adapted that for the homeowner too. We overestimate what we can do in a weekend or a week, and we underestimate what we can do in a full 12 to 18 months. How many of you, thinking back to winter break, whether you have kids or not, between Christmas and New Year's is winter break, no matter how old you are. How many of you thought, I am going to get my entire house organized this winter? And how many of you even got up maybe on a Saturday morning, made the coffee, got your, got your, you know, snacks ready, and you started? And you made great progress. You make really, really good progress, but you did not get all the way organized. And the reason this happens is because organization is not about big bursts of energy as much as I thought it was. It is about consistent effort over a long period of time. That gets us all the way organized to living a productive life. So we're going to start one room at a time. And in the 100-Day Home Organization Program, we start in the kitchen. It's kind of a joke because people who've been doing it like 8, 9, 10 times are still starting in the kitchen. And boy, is the kitchen organized. But you know why we start in the kitchen? For a couple of reasons. Number one, the kitchen affects the entire family. And if you can get your kitchen organized and you have a spouse, Your spouse immediately realizes, oh, this thing is going to work. So A, we would like to get family members on board. B, the next reason we start in the kitchen is because there are so many little spaces in there. And I am going to take 21 days to get you organized in your kitchen. I'm not gonna say we're doing the kitchen in a day. I want to teach you the skill of organization, and I can teach you things in the kitchen that are going to extrapolate out into your entire house. We're going to— I'm going to teach you how to organize a drawer. When we do the silverware drawer and you log into your portal, I'm going to show you why a silverware drawer works. Because the next day we're going to do utensils, and I'm going to show you why and how to organize that drawer. And once you learn that skill, you can organize any drawer anywhere in your house. Then we're going to go cabinet by cabinet, foodstuff, dish stuff, and I'm going to teach you as you go. You're not going to really realize you're learning because I'm a sneaky teacher like that. But at the end of that 21 days, you will look at your kitchen differently than before. So I want to run a poll. How many of you already have your kitchen organized? How many already have your kitchen organized? Okay, there's a lot of nos. So we're recording this at the end of January. I did these masterclasses end of December and first, first week of January, and we had a lot of yeses. We're getting a lot of nos this time. So we're at the end of January. Now we're to the people who are like, oh, New Year started. Maybe, maybe I'm ready to do this organizing thing. And I'm so excited about that. That's why we're doing this extra masterclass. Now you're saying no, your kitchen isn't organized. Has your kitchen ever been organized? Because I think it probably has been. We watched our parents organize kitchens. We see other people's kitchens and organization when we're in other people's houses. And so we have a mental model. Of what an organized kitchen looks like. We see magazines, you can look on Pinterest, and push come to shove, you can figure out how to organize your own kitchen on your own. Not to the level I organize it, but you can figure it out, right? Okay, the next 21 days in the program, we move on to your bedroom, your, your master bedroom, master bathroom, and master closet. If you're like Lisa, we only have one closet in our house. Congratulations, that's your master. It's always the master. Now we're going to move from the family to you, and we're going to spend 3 weeks just on you, your side of the bed, your bed stand, your bathroom items, your part of the closet. And we're really going to figure out what do you want to keep. The reason we do these in a row is for 2 reasons. Number one, 80% of your day is spent in your bathroom, in that bathroom suite bedroom area, or the kitchen. And if I can get those 2 areas of your house working, then you will feel so much more organized. And the other reason we do that is because— and I have to go back, sorry. The other reason that we do that is because now you're learning the skill of organization for yourself. Most people that do the 100-day program stop after 42 days the first time. I want you to hear that. There is no perfect 100 days. There is— you're not going to do this once and be done. Organization is a learnable skill. I'm going to teach you step by step how to organize different spaces. And along the way, you are going to live a more organized life. So you've probably gotten through all these spaces I already mentioned before, but I want you to do it with me and I'm going to take your organization to a deeper level. Now, how many of you have an organized kitchen? Or I mean an organized bedroom suite, your, your closet, your bedroom, and your master bath? Yes or no? You do not. We do not. I love this group. Oh my gosh, I love you guys so much. Okay, have you ever had those spaces organized?

Yes. Yes.

Again, you have— there is no lack of information on how to organize your closet on the internet, right? Like, you could, you could find it right after you get off this masterclass. I take 7 days to go through the closet. We do one whole day on shoes. We do one whole day on your shirts. We do one whole day on pants. I want to talk to you about shirts. I want to talk to you about pants. And I chunk it like I would as a grade school teacher. We're focused on this. We're just going to do this. Okay, now we're going to do this. And the reason I do that is because organization might not have worked for you in the past because the order in which you tackled your house. We just mentioned who took the week between Christmas and New Year's to get organized. And some of you said you did. And I guarantee the spaces that you did were your kitchen, were the spaces I just told you about. Or you did your garage or storage room because they were empty. Because your holiday decorations weren't in there. But I think it's probably more that you got to these, these areas. So organization is like math, you guys. I'm a middle school math teacher. I totally know how to do this for you. You have got to learn to add before you subtract, and multiplication is just repeated addition. Each skill builds on the other. If you cannot get your kitchen organized, if you don't know how to organize your master closet, It is going to be super, super hard for you to do calculus, aka your storage room. Like, the storage room is the hardest area to organize. And in order to do the skills that you need to do a storage room, to organize a storage room, you have to be able to do a complicated kitchen, do your closet and all the different things in your closet, go through everything that is in your bathroom. And it's hot or cold and dirty, and you have to stand when you do a storage room. Like, you need physical stamina for that. Whereas when you're in your closet, you sit down on your bottom and go through all your shoes, right? Like you can literally eat chocolate while you're going through your shoes. You would not want to do that in your storage area. So we are building our mental muscles, our physical muscles, our organizing muscles as we go through these 100 days. So you're growing your organizational muscles. And this is super important. If you want your house to look like Better Homes and Gardens and all of your containers to match, I am not your professional organizer. My goal is never that we're going to get to perfect because I do not think that it exists. And you're going to need to continue to tweak your systems as you go through different stages of life and as you go throughout the year. I am a functional organizer. I help you get your home so organized that you have extra time and it feels like a home. But it also looks like a home. Like, my daughter's shoes are all over on the floor and dishes aren't done yet today, but I could do them, you know, when I need to. I just don't do them perpetually. There is a cycle to organization. And if you followed any other organizers, which I'm sure you have, we each have a propensity for one or the other. So organizing always starts with decluttering. Think Marie Kondo, right? Get rid of it all, or any of your other favorite minimalist type organizers, they're going to focus on decluttering. The problem with decluttering is if you stay in decluttering too long or you don't move into the organizing space. You tend to over-declutter, get rid of things you actually wish you hadn't gotten rid of, and you never get that satiated feeling of being organized or being done. You feel like you always have to get rid of more. When you've gotten rid of enough, you go into organizing, and organizing is about everything having a place. So instead of having hair ties in 4 different locations in your house, they're only in your master bedroom. Instead of having extra school supplies in 3 different locations, all office supplies are in this one drawer. In the dining room. Instead of having books in 4 different bookshelves, you consolidate that to 2 rooms and you get nicer bookshelves. So organizing, getting things in the same place so that you can look at them. And once you get organized, then you increase productivity, aka you get more time. So if you are looking at the 100-day program and it is the end of January, we have just finished the kitchen and we're moving into the master bedroom. You can start with us on the master bedroom. We started on the master bedroom yesterday. I think we started the closet. You can jump in anywhere you want, or you can start on day 1. You get the whole program on demand. You can do it as you want to do it. Your realistic expectation by the end of this calendar year, which is going to end the end of April, is that you would get your Sunday basket done, your kitchen, and your master suite. If you get all of that done, which you may not even get all of that done. By the end of April, A++. Do you hear what I'm saying? You do not need to sign up for the 100-day program, get through all of it, and be perfectly organized before summer. That's an unrealistic expectation that you're putting on yourself, and I want to take that off of you. Remember, you are overestimating what you can get done in a weekend or a week and underestimating what you can get done in a year to 18 months. When you join the 100-day program, you get lifetime access, and I will break down all of the projects we're doing into manageable tasks, setting you up for success with just 15-minute-a-day tasks. You get a 1 to 3 minute video and then an actionable task. Along with that, you get a planner, which I'm going to go through here in a minute for you, and a Facebook group, and I answer some questions twice a month in the Facebook group as well. So let me stop sharing. I forgot to put this slide in, Emily. Let me stop sharing and I'm going to show you the planner. Grab one. I have more than one, you know. So here's our planner. Let me see if I could stop the share. Oh, hello again. And our planner is unique in that it only covers 120 days, right? So this one only covers from January to April. Now if you order before the middle of February, you're still going to get this one. If you order later, you will get an undated planner plus the next one, which would be our summer planner. In the beginning, in the 100-day program, we have— Okay, this is a planner. This is not a datebook. So I am all about planning, and planning is about setting goals and thinking about your time and, and looking at your habits. And so we have 2 hours worth of training walking you through these beginning planning sheets. About how you're going to do that, similar to what I told you about the Sunday basket, only instead of doing this with our actionable to-dos, we're looking at our calendar and our roles and responsibilities and what we have going on in our life and how we're going to organize those. So those are the planning pages. And we're going to have a YouTube channel video coming soon walking through every page of this planner as well. It's not up there quite yet. Then it's actually a datebook, just like a real datebook where you could put in whatever your goals are for the day, what your meal is going to be. And then along the bottom, we tell you what your 100-day program is. And we have this really cool bookmark on this side. You can write your goals for the year in a Sharpie marker and you can put index cards up here, Post-it notes up here for whatever you want to get done this week. And then as you turn the page and you start looking at your weekend days. We take you through a checklist to go through your Sunday basket, and this pops out and moves throughout the planner. And then at the beginning of each week, I give you 2 pages, a 2-page printable to plan on Sunday. You're going to plan that area of the house that you're going to organize, and then you're going to work out your plan on paper. And then you're going to plan that area of your house to organize, and then you're going to work it out on paper. And then in the back, we have some additional resource pages as well. Okay, let's see if I can share the screen again. Yay. All right, hold on, I gotta grab my chat. Okay, so that is the planner. So the planner, the first planner comes with your purchase of the 100-day program. Each additional planner after that is $47, or you could buy 3, which is a full year's worth of planners. For $127. Now if you're thinking, okay, the 100-Day Program sounds really, really great, I would like to try it for free, you can try Week 9, which is the laundry room, by going to organize365.com/try100. And then this is new. This is a change that we just made. Planning Day with Lisa, which is on 2.5-hour live event that we do is included in the 100-day program. We have taken the Sunday Basket out. If you're familiar with that, the Sunday Basket is a standalone purchase. Everyone purchases Sunday Basket first. That is not included in the 100-day program. It's not right, Emily. This is not right. Nope, this is part of All Access. Sorry guys, I have this slide in the wrong place. Okay, so the 100-day program. Includes what I just told you. Here you go. And here's our payment plans. So you can go to organize365.com/dazed. You could buy full price for $497, or we have a 6-month payment plan for $96 a month. And remember, that's lifetime access, so you don't need to buy that again. People say, when we're starting up again, do we need to sign up again? Nope. If you want a planner, you need to order the planner, but you do not need to pay again. This is lifetime access. Some people are going through it for the 13th time right now. And anything we add to the 100-day program just gets added in at no additional cost.

OK, yes.

Yeah, you guys are having a great little chat over there without me. Again, like I said, if you want to try a week free, we have the laundry room where you could try that free. And the reason why we picked the laundry room is because, well, first of all, no one's going to notice if you do the laundry room, right? And watch the videos, try the videos, see how it's going to work with the 15-minute actionable days. Remember I said there is no such thing as perfection. We want you to get progress, not perfection. Invest as you go or go all in. People say that you can't buy time, and I 100% disagree. Every minute you spend organizing buys you future time. All right, Emily, I'm going to have you hop on here for one second and answer any questions that have come out. I need to change a couple of slides.

OK. I have not seen any questions, but if you have any, please go ahead and type them in, and I will be happy to answer them.

Let me— Emily, why don't you tell them about planning day? We're going to talk about planning day here in a minute in All Access. So you want to go through planning day?

Yep. I'm just checking these last couple.

I'll be right back. We're still here, everybody. We're still here.

Okay, perfect. Yep, no questions. So Planning Day is awesome. It's a 2.5-hour thing that Lisa does live on a Saturday morning from like 10 to 12:30. If you can't attend live, she will send you the replay within 48 hours. And Lisa basically goes through her planner, the planning pages at the front. And I don't have mine handy, mine's in my kitchen, so I apologize. I don't have it to walk through with you right now without leaving my ears and my voice. But basically it helps you, you do a big brain dump where you, you know, defer, delegate, delete your responsibilities for the next quote unquote new year. You go through, you know, what are some big events that are coming up in your life? Is your mother turning 70? Are you having your 25th wedding anniversary? Is your child graduating college? Those types of things that you want to look ahead for and plan in advance. of to make sure that you're making special memories and keeping track of those life-changing milestone moments. Um, let's see what else we talked about. What our 3 things are that we're going to focus on. So for example, last year my thing was all about my finances and getting my debt taken care of and getting my credit score up and things like that. So different things related to that as far as that goal, breaking it down, using your bookmark to keep track of what goals you have set so that you're seeing that every week, every week that you're going through, you're remembering that, oh yeah, these are the 3 things that I'm working on. And those break down for your home, your family, yourself, and one other thing I can't think of. Your home, family, yourself. Is your finances—

finances? Yeah, your finances.

Yeah. So it's basically Lisa walking you through each step of that plan. planning portion of the planner. That's extremely helpful to just— one, you have that time carved out that you're going to be sitting down and actually doing that for 2.5 hours to set forth a course for yourself for the next quote unquote new year and that accountability with Lisa, and she helps you think about things that you might not have otherwise thought of.

Okay, awesome. Thank you so much. Sorry about that, you guys. Emily, are you seeing the Start Here slide again?

Yep.

Okay, sweet. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, I see a couple other questions coming in. We will go through all of those at the end. We just made a change and we've pulled the Sunday Basket out and we put Planning Day in All Access. So if you look at this chart, I'm going to go over this a minute, especially if you've been thinking, oh, I want to sign up and you haven't signed up. I want to show you this change. The Sunday Basket is a standalone product. You may say, Lisa, why did you decide to do this? Well, I decided to do this for a couple reasons. One, We have certified organizers and they are selling you the complete Sunday Basket system. So if you buy them from the certified organizers, then we don't want you to be penalized when you decide to go All Access with us. Another reason is because the book is coming out, The Paper Solution, in August, and we know people will want to start with the Sunday Basket. So when they upgrade to All Access, we don't want the Sunday Basket in there as in step 3, because really it's step 1. So if you don't have a Sunday Basket yet, buy your Sunday Basket whenever you're ready. That is standalone from the 100-day program. This pink column, which is step 2, which is what I just talked to you about, this is growing your organizational muscles. This is learning about getting organized and the 100 spaces inside of your home that need to be organized. And then All Access is an upgrade membership from the 100-day program. Inside of All Access, we give you Planning Day, which Emily and I just went through, and then we give you our new Photo organizing program. We give you all 4 binders, which we're about to go through, and then a whole bunch of bonuses. So All Access is done after you do the 100-day program because you need to have those organizing muscles in place before you tackle little pieces of paper. Alright, so we're going to talk about All Access and starting with paper. Why do we want to start organizing our paper? We are going to handle our active paper. In our Sunday basket. And then we're going to move on to our archive paper, which is what is going to be in the All Access program. And what we're going to do is ditch our filing cabinet and replace it with these 4 binders. The reason why we're doing this is because filing cabinets are not portable. If you have to evacuate for a natural disaster, or if you need to advocate for someone as power of attorney or power of healthcare or Take all of your documents to a closing for your real estate. You can't really do that from your filing cabinet. So we're moving these into binders. The other reason why we move into binders is because binders give you a definition. And as a teacher, if I say you need to get all your paperwork into this binder, you'll do it, right? But if I say, well, you can have as many file drawers as you want, we tend to keep more than we need. And that 2-inch binder is plenty enough for all that paper that you need, because we really don't need 85% of what we already have in our filing cabinet. So let me go through each of these binders because I know you're thinking there is no way that my 4 file drawers are going to fit in her 4 cute little binders. They probably— they pretty much are. Other than tax documents, I don't have anything except these 4 binders and a couple of extra specialty binders like the Warrior Mama binder. So the reference binder is everything that you need for your house. If you're going to sell your house, you would leave this binder with the new homeowner. So this is the colors of paint and how you maintain your heater and how much you paid for your house and property taxes and, and cleaning and all of those things. Your financial organizing binder is all of your money, your current and your long-term money. Now most of your current money bills to be paid are going to be in your Sunday basket, but budgets might be in your financial planner. This binder is what people would need if they were going to be your power of— if you were going to handle someone else's estate or someone was going to handle your estate. This is also where you can keep up to date all of your insurances, all of your vehicle information, and all of your retirement benefits. The medical organizing binder will help you when you go advocate for people as a caregiver. I have these for my kids. And if you have any medical condition, when you're going to see a lot of doctors, you know, your medical records are digitized, but they're only required to be kept by medical institutions for 7 years. So if you're thinking because medical records are digitized, you can go back and find any past information, you cannot. And I have found many, many times having the printed out test results, even if they're in the computer system, when I'm with a doctor is extremely helpful in getting them the information that they need right away. And also when I'm working with 2 different doctors, being able to pass papers back and forth, or them being able to look at papers, you know, over the course of a year versus just the most Latest result. And then the last binder is what makes you, you. This is your household operations binder or your lesson plan book for your family, like I like to call it. This is where we keep all of our party plan information, holidays, pets, childcare logs, like anything, cleaning schedules, anything that makes you and your family hum goes in your household operations binder. All right, we talked about planning day with Lisa. Which is available inside of All Access, and we've added the Photo Organizing Program. Basically, All Access is your membership for hashtag everything that's above the 100-day program. I made the determination a few months ago that I was not going to add more paid programs inside of Organize 365. Now, can you buy the Photo Organizing Program outside of All Access? Yes, you can. It's $300. If you are not in any of our program, it's only $99 to add on if you're in the 100-day program, or it's included in All Access. Same with Planning Day. You can buy Planning Day for $99 if you're in the 100 days, but it is— the first one is included inside of All Access, and then you can pay to do more if you enjoy that. But wait, there's more. As we have been organizing the website and all of our offerings, there are a lot of really cool things that I made over the last 8 years that have value, but We're not just going to keep using those as lead magnets or additional revenue streams. We would just rather give those to you as a bonus if you're in the All Access membership. One of those is the 28 Days from Organized Storage Room to— from Hot Mess to Organized Storage Room. This was a podcast series 2 years ago and people are still loving it, where I literally break down organizing your storage room in 28 days. Remember how I said it's really You have to be like Olympic level athlete in order to get your storage room organized. I have a systematic way that I organized every single storage room that I ever organized as a professional organizer. I could go back to all those houses. They all look exactly the same. We use the HGX shelving, we use these certain bins, and you can find that link on our website. And then we systematically organized everything into these bins, and it takes at least 28 days. Like, you get a video every day. Of all the different kinds of stuff that you have in your storage room. Another bonus is how to organize your email. And if you have Gmail, I specifically show you how to set it up like a Sunday basket with little colored slash pockets in there. So organizing your email. We have a whole bunch of printables, including these rainbow printables, or I think somebody made a request the other day for a printable and we just asked our graphic designer to make it. I know another audience member has made a pet binder. And we edited that and put that in there as a bonus. There are all kinds of printable bonuses in there. As we make them, we just put them in there. 10 Steps to an Organized Move ebook is another bonus. And the big one is you get editable PDF of each of those 4 main binders. So when you buy an Organized 365 binder, you will get a printable that you can print out of everything that comes inside of that binder. So if you mess up on a page or you need to reprint the binder, you can reprint it. But if you want to be able to type in those as editable PDFs, that is only for our members of All Access. So in All Access, you get everything that is in the 100-Day Program. You get the Sunday, and you get all of those bonuses that we talked about. So here it is typed out. Planning Day, the 100-Day Program if you buy from scratch, or you can buy the 100-Day Program now at $96 a month if you want, and you can upgrade to All Access later. You get all 4 physical binders shipped to you if you're in the United States, and the photo organizing program. So you can also go from not having anything and buy the 100-day program with All Access together for one payment of $997 or 6 payments of $186. So if you're thinking, okay, I want to do all this, I want to get all the things that I need for my one year. Then what you need to do is buy a Sunday Basket for $97 and then add on a payment for $186, and that will give you the 100-Day Program, the planner, all the all-access bonuses, and the binder, the binders all shipped to you. Emily, any questions coming in about that?

Yes. So we have Jane who purchased the 100-Day Program. She's getting on board with everything. I said the only thing that you need That it sounds like you don't have is the planning day. And she wants to know, is it necessary? So can you differentiate for them what the difference is between planning day and what comes in their dashboard?

So, um, oh yes, okay, between planning day and the planner training in the dashboard, right? Yes, yes. Okay, so the planner training inside of the dashboard is A video that I made of me going through the planner a year ago. So the pages are just a little bit different. And it is an hour and 20 minutes, maybe, of like, literally, I'm like, here's this page. Here's how I do this page. Here's this page. Here's how I do this page. And we've broken it, we chunked it out into like 10 to 15 minute videos. So you watch one video, do it in your planner, watch one video, do it in your planner. Planning Day is 2.5 hours live. And so you— it's a Saturday from 10 to 12:30. You get your iced tea, I get my Coca-Cola, whatever, coffee. We sit down and I talk. And then I— it's like a workshop. And I say, okay, now everybody fill this out. Okay, everybody share, share in the chat what you realized. I answer any questions and then we go on to the next one. So it's much more interactive and step by step. And also it's much more in depth. So you, you get to find out real time what my goals are because I share What my goals were from last year, or year, 120-day year, and habits that I changed. And then I rate myself. So you find out that like last time, I didn't get 3 out of 5. And here's why. And here's which ones are carrying over and here's which ones aren't. And I give you all that behind the scenes, like how I actually make my decisions of what my goals will be. So it's the difference between watching a video on YouTube and figuring it out on yourself, on your own. Or being in a classroom with a teacher where they're stopping and having you do it and then explaining and you ask your questions. Does that make sense? Yep.

And that's awesome. That's the only other question.

Okay, great. So like I said, you can buy the 100-day program first and then wait, and at any time you can add on All Access for a $500 upgrade. It does not save you any money to go All Access first. I'm not— there's no cost savings. There's no bonuses. There's no timer that's counting down. And if you don't get it now, you're never going to get it. I don't sell that way. I'm a teacher at heart, and I want to provide for you the product and the instruction that you need, where you are, when you need it. So if the, if the Sunday basket is perfect for you, start there. That's all I want you to get. If you've done the Sunday basket and that's working really well, but you're realizing she's right. I only get through my kitchen and my master bedroom, and I don't even know how to organize the family room or the dining room or the garage, then you need the 100 Day Program so you can finish learning all of those different things you need to learn in order to organize a whole house. Or if you're like, no, I know how to organize my house. You know, I'm— I've gotten that part done. I've been through the 100 Day Program. I want to take it to the next level. I want to get my email organized. I want to figure out my storage room. I want to get my photos done. I want to set better goals. I want to set, you know, set new habits that are going to help me live a productive life. That is all access. Everyone wants productivity. Like if you were to— if I were to name this podcast, How to Get More Productivity, 1,000 people would sign up for this because people want productivity. But what you need to realize is productivity comes from organization, and organization comes from changed habits. And it's not sexy. And it's not fun. It's not the answer that you want, but, but it is the truth. Productivity comes from living an organized life. So you have to go get the organization first in order to get the productivity. And you've probably noticed this, that productivity in one area of your life leads to productivity in the next. So when you get the Sunday basket done, it's going to be easier to do the 100 days. When the 100 days is done, it's gonna be easier to do things in All Access. So now is the time to join us. You are not alone. You have what it takes. You were made for this. You are ready to get organized. So the real question is, when and where are you going to start? We are open 365 days a year. We're organized 365. When you are ready, when you have the motivation, when you want to jump into organizing, we are here to support you with a roadmap that works. Start with the Sunday basket, add the 100 days, go all access. And now Emily and I will stay on and answer the rest of your questions. Go ahead and stop this recording.